Information about #6F6F6F color
Basic facts about this digital color
#6F6F6F is a quiet, subdued balanced grey tone that sits on the lighter side of the spectrum. It is a natural fit for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Tarmac (#6F6F6E). Nearby in the Register you will also find Double Stack (#6F716E) and Dark Silver (#71706E).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (111 each), placing #6F6F6F exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. On this background, white text reaches a 5.0:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AA); black stays at 4.2:1. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#6F6F6F color variations
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#6F6F6F color tints
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#6F6F6F color shades
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#6F6F6F color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#6F6F6F belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.
Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to #6F6F6F color
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Nearest named colors to #6F6F6F
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#6F6F6E
#6F716E
#71706E
#6C6E6D
#726E6D
#6D726C
#737270
#71726A
#716F69
#74736F
#727472
#6B6A6C
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#6F6F6F
- RGB111, 111, 111
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 56
- CSSrgb(111, 111, 111)
- HSL0°, 0%, 44%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 43.529%
- HSV0°, 0%, 44%
- HSB0°, 0%, 44%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.435
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.435
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.435
- GLSLvec3(0.435, 0.435, 0.435)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.435, 0.435, 0.435, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.435, 0.435, 0.435)
- Percentage of Red in RGB43.5%
- Percentage of Green in RGB43.5%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB43.5%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyLight
- HEX ID6F6F6F
- DECIMAL ID7303023
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
